This is the time for starting the post-mortem on public responses, assessing long term economic and political fallout, and emphasizing strategies for diminishing the effects of future pandemics. That last point, in particular, as this coronavirus isn’t that lethal—imagine an equally infectious but more fatal virus.
I’m particularly curious about the individual and small-private-group strategies – one big lesson seems to be that everyone needs to ensure there’s sufficient Slack all over. Just focusing on state level strategies leaves people vulnerable to those strategies failing.
It might also be worth thinking about how to develop and apply ‘meta-Slack’. Instead of always being prepared for the worst possible pandemic (or other disaster), maybe we could instead always be prepared to rapidly shift to being prepared for a disaster. We’ll always want to prepare for disasters that spread faster than our ability to respond to them tho.
One reason why I think it’s important to focus on what individuals and small private groups can do is that I don’t anticipate states doing a particularly good job for what will turn out to be the actual next disaster of a similar (or greater) scale.
Strategies for larger private groups might be helpful too.
This is the time for starting the post-mortem on public responses, assessing long term economic and political fallout, and emphasizing strategies for diminishing the effects of future pandemics. That last point, in particular, as this coronavirus isn’t that lethal—imagine an equally infectious but more fatal virus.
I’m particularly curious about the individual and small-private-group strategies – one big lesson seems to be that everyone needs to ensure there’s sufficient Slack all over. Just focusing on state level strategies leaves people vulnerable to those strategies failing.
It might also be worth thinking about how to develop and apply ‘meta-Slack’. Instead of always being prepared for the worst possible pandemic (or other disaster), maybe we could instead always be prepared to rapidly shift to being prepared for a disaster. We’ll always want to prepare for disasters that spread faster than our ability to respond to them tho.
One reason why I think it’s important to focus on what individuals and small private groups can do is that I don’t anticipate states doing a particularly good job for what will turn out to be the actual next disaster of a similar (or greater) scale.
Strategies for larger private groups might be helpful too.